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Ice Age: Rap's Greatest Hockey References

Compared to basketball, football, and baseball (and golf...and soccer...and NASCAR), ice hockey doesn't get that much love in rap lyrics—you know: it's cold, there's crazy white people with masks and sticks, etc. etc. (word to Nat X). That's why it always catches our attention when an MC drops a hockey reference in a verse. Most recently, it was the homie Mibbs from Pac Div (on "Knuckleheadz" from the group's new Complex-co-signed mixtape) who got icey with it: "It get colder than a polar, or Ovechkin with the puck."

"I do it for the Capital, Wale Ovechkin... More or less Lindros/Flyer than the rest of them... sideways talk'll make your neck like Zednick" Wale, "Back in the Go-Go"

COMPLEX SAYS: Somebody's been playing a little too much NHL on the Xbox.
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COMPLEX SAYS: Not really a great hockey quote, but Ghost in a goalie mask? We couldn't resist.
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"And if rap was hockey, I be Gretzky, puffing nestle"Styles from DMX's "Niggaz Done Started Somethin'"

COMPLEX SAYS: The mental image of The Great One toasting an L = priceless.
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"I bring flows more rare than black hockey cats/I never got checked due to lack of respect"Evidence from from Dilated Peoples' "The Platform" (remix)